The Milton Days celebration has been an ongoing event for many, many years. I've had the pleasure of enjoying it as have my parents, even my grandparents. The festivities may be fewer in number and perhaps the crowds aren't as big but it still takes place every July. The poster above is probably almost 70 years old...street dancing, canoe races, swimming races but most of all the big news during this Milton Days Festivities was the opening of a paved highway through Milton. Most of us don't recall a day when the roads weren't paved but for those who are older I'm sure that was big news. I'm not sure when Milton Days first began, but luckily the tradition continues thanks to the dedication and hard work to many volunteers!
Tim, you say that the above poster is about 70 years old, which would take us all the way back to 1942, so I looked it up on the internet, and the closest 2 years that July 21st fell on a Thursday was in 1938 and 1949. That makes this poster either 63 or 74 years old.
ReplyDeleteI remember when they widened and paved the road up through The Falls in 1948 and moved Miss Helen Thomas's store back in the field 15' with a bulldozer, to where it is today. Gosh there were a lot of trucks on the go, my cousin had a close call with one of them. They paved out as far as the twelve mile. So the Ad for Milton Days was for 1949. The said store had been attached on the rear of the Milton Post Office until 1931, then moved for Miss Thomas's drygoods business after the big fire.
ReplyDeleteDo they still have the garden party over on the Milton Community Hall grounds each year?
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